Range losses grip cattle country amid heavy winter woes
Reports from Deadwood South Dakota warn of severe stock losses across Wyoming and western South Dakota as storms block feed and rail routes. Sheep markets suffer amid rumors of cheap sales and inflated prices, while ranchers dispute sensational claims and defend their resilience.
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Deadwood
S. C
Launder
Wyo
Casper
Lander
Gilligh
Belle Fouche
Valentine
Patrick Sullivan
Sullivan
Wyomingite Returns Journalists Plans New Casper School
Wil wyoming editor Frank Barrow returns to Cody with newspaper ventures in view after months away. Casper school board adopts modern three story building plans with basement rooms for manual training and janitor living quarters. Bonds expected to sell at a premium as bids open from fifteen firms. A reader asks why the Carnegie library remains closed and Rev J J Wicks leaves Casper for Wheatland revival services.
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Frank Barrow
Wyoming
Heath
Barrow
Cody
Rhoades
Maay Lask
Carnegie Library
Carnegie
Casper
Wyo
Bake sale funds boosted by Casper saloon men
The Ladies Aid of a Baptist church held a bake sale in the Carpenter building last Saturday afternoon. About $81.85 was raised for the church treasury, after a visitor sparked a fundraising push by slipping a ten dollar note to the ladies and prompting additional donations from saloon men of Casper, culminating in envelopes totaling $27.50 and a total over $60 in receipts with thanks to Casper’s saloon men.
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Ladies Aid of the Baptist Church
Carpenter
Center Street
Casper
Calf Diphtheria Reported in Converse County
Dr. Pflaeging surveyed Converse county north of Lusk after being called to investigate a severe calf disease at the stock show trip. He notes hundreds of calves affected by necrotic stomatitis calfdiptheria, highly contagious and fatal. State officials plan quarantine and treatments, with officials to treat recoverable stock and cull hopeless cases.
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Denver
Pflaeging
Converse County
Lusk
Pacging
Hood
Federal Bureau of Animal Industry
Collin Campbell
Court postpones jury trials amid winter and sheepmen on range
Judge Charles E. Carpenter and Reporter Patterson arrived from Cheyenne as district court opened. Jury cases are postponed to next July due to harsh winter and jurors being unavailable from sheepmen on the range. Several cases including Lobell brothers versus Stock Oil, embezzlement charges, and assault were dismissed or continued. A sermon at St. Mark's urged hope and resilience in hard times.
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Charles E. Carpenter
Patterson
Cheyene
Lobell Brothers
Joseph
Fred
Stock Oil Company
Laventhal
Chicago
Fred Lobell
Oddmund Josendahl
J. J. Finley
F. W. Rodde
Barnes
Wmn. Welch
James Kennedy
Charles Murfin
Kennedy
J. Charles Villiers
St. Mark's Church
Band Dance a Good One
One of the largest crowds attended the band dance at odd bellows hall last Friday. Lights failed, lamps were used, yet the crowd remained thick early in the evening. The band delivered excellent music, answered encores, and played until patrons left satisfied. The event cleared 125 dollars, aiding band room furnishings. A free concert is planned at the Hell theatre on Monday January 31.
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Odd Bellows' Hall
Uae
Merrywakers
Hell Theatre
Shoshoni Dam Completion Marks World’s Highest Storage Wall
Monday witnessed the completion of the Shoshoni dam, the world’s highest storage dam at 328 feet. Cody residents watched as the final cement was smoothed and workers celebrated. The reservoir will fill about 14 miles long, 7 miles wide with an average depth of 400 feet, reclaiming 192000 acres, with a second dam diverting waters via a 3 mile tunnel to arid lands.
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Shoshoni
Cody
Canon
Wyoming & Northwestern Blockaded by Record Snow Drifts
Last week the Wyoming & Northwestern railway faced a historic blockade as a stalled passenger train at Richard near Lander remains buried in drifts ten to fifteen feet high. A series of rotary snow plows failed, prompting hand shoveling and a second rotary deployment to reopen the line toward Harrison Casper.
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Wyoming & Northwestern
Lander
Richard
Harrison
Casper
Ingram
Express Company
Richards
Elks Visit Lander as Elk Visitation Noted
Patrick Sullivan spends about a week visiting Lander friends while hoping for a train back to Casper. Early Sunday, Sle telephoned Hi. L. Patton that weather was fine and that nearly two hundred elk drifted from the mountains into Lander last night.
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Patrick Sullivan
Lander
Casper
Sle
Hi. L. Patton
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Wheatland
Joe Cunpus
W. N. Cummings
Fred Miller
Rand
Elizabeth Robinson
Browning
Watt
Wuste
Shoshoni Dam
Elks
Oregon City
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